The Brotherhood: A multi-racial doctrinaire organization professing to uphold the rights of all who are socially oppressed. The Brotherhood may have been drawn from the American Communist Party, where Ellison, the author of Invisible Man, worked for a number of years. Its emphasis on the collective, the rational, the scientific, and the abstract makes it a very cold ideology that is often at odds with the narrator's own. The Invisible Man narrator's feelings of betrayal when the Brotherhood informs him that Harlem is no longer a focus of attention, may have been drawn from Ellison's feelings when the American Communist Party shifted its focus away from blacks in the 1940s.
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